The evil that lives in the hearts of … women

Remember the claim we heard over and over from feminist women at the time of Anita Hill’s charges against Clarence Thomas that “women never lie” about men harrassing them or raping them? A 22-year-old woman in England made false accusations of rape against four separate men, was finally caught, and has been sentenced to two years in jail. It’s quite a story.

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Russell W. writes:

The fact that she only got two years as punishment is appalling. I recall someone pointing out when the Duke rape charges started to unravel that in Jewish rabbinical law, a consciously false accuser receives the same punishment that the accused would have recieved had the judge/jury believed the liar’s claims. That seems perfectly appropriate in the case of all these lies about rape.

Jeff in England writes:

There are some women who lie about rape (a despicable thing to do) but the majority don’t. In addition, in many countries around the planet, especially Muslim ones, the raped woman (even if she is underrage) is held responsible for her own rape and is punished instead of the rapist, sometimes by death.

Feminism, despite its flaws (and there are many) is an important movement in the struggle to stop this sort of injustice.

Bruce B. writes:

I don’t see why Jeff’s comment is relevent within a Western context. Feminism was a Western-spawned movement right? As such, it wasn’t a reaction to the types of things that he describes (Muslim rape of the victim) but a reaction to the inequality inherent in traditional sex roles. If it helps a Pakistani woman, then I guess that’s a (small) silver lining. But our concerns lie primarily with the West. From a traditonalist perspective, feminism isn’t an “important movement” but is very nearly an unqualified disaster.

LA writes:

Excellent point by Bruce.

Also, in my view, feminism has not brought a single good thing into the world. It has been a wholly negative influence.

Maureen C. writes:

Re: “Also, in my view, feminism has not brought a single good thing into the world. It has been a wholly negative influence. “

Cher Lawrence,

Militant crazy feminism, NO; but humane, fairness feminism, YES!! Increased opportunities for women are not only good for women but for men, too, since the ability to get a real job removes women’s excuses for being creampuffs or anchors around men’s long-suffering necks.

When I was in my twenties, a woman had only a few “low-wage” jobs to choose from: nurse, teacher, factory worker, waitress, salesclerk, secretary. (Teachers admittedly were decently paid; but, having been a high school teacher for five years many years ago, I can tell you that I wouldn’t take that miserable job again at any wage.)

Feminism opened up the professions of medicine, law, university teaching, research, government service, management jobs, getting a loan for a small business, etc. Feminism tried to ensure that women were paid the same wages for doing the same job. If feminism did nothing else, it justified itself by these two gains.

LA replies:

I do not agree with the idea that the feminist ideology and movement opened up professions to women that otherwise would not have been opened up. The whole modern world was moving rapidly in the direction of individual freedom and removal of ascribed roles, and many jobs and professions would have opened for women without their ever being a feminist movement.

Further, let us add (though I cannot back up the point in detail now) that not all the new opportunities for women have on balance, or at all, been beneficial to society, for example, women in positions of religious and political leadership. I will also add that a strong argument has been made by some traditionalist conservatives that it was a big mistake to give women the vote, because it turned women into a constituency separate from men and the family, and thus destructive of the good of society instead of integral to and supportive of it. The ultimate consequence of the separation of women from men can be seen today in the hysterical “women’s culture” that is on display, for instance, on the Oprah show.

Howard Sutherland writes:

Boris Johnson, Tory MP for Henley-on-Thames and former editor of The Spectator (a conservative, one might think, with that CV), in a column in The Telegraph identifies a lot of the damage rampant feminism has wrought. But—like those who identify aspects of our Islam problem but won’t call Islam itself a problem and won’t advocate anything that might deal with it—in the end all Boris can say is, never mind the ills he has just told us about, feminism is just great and he wouldn’t dream of trying to go back and “the feminist revolution is good and unstoppable”, so we should all just get used to it.

What, then, was Boris’s point in writing this column, other than to sound clever and with-it in his wordly-wise way?

David H. writes:

I agree completely with your and Bruce’s assessment. Additional evidence for both of your deductions is the fact that feminists have viciously attacked Christianity and Christian traditions, yet I ask, how many have attacked Islam (or the very horrors that Jeff mentions, “honor” killings and sanctioned murder of raped women, not just the acts but the Islamic ideology behind them)?

Feminists in the West have continually belittled men and damaged manhood to the point that many men have become, sadly, liberal weaklings (not the only cause, but one of the most powerful). Bitter irony, when Western women will need to rely on men to protect them (and indeed die for them) against the determined and diabolical muslim horde (unhindered by man-hating feminists), they may be in for a rude surprise—all thanks to the feminists themselves.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at January 30, 2007 10:57 PM | Send